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Title
Cincinnati
-
Central
Parkway
Subject
Historical markers--Ohio--Cincinnati
Parks--Ohio--Cincinnati
Canals--Ohio--History
Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio)
Waterways--Canals--Miami & Erie Canal
Central Parkway Area (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Time Period
1930s
1940s
Place
Cincinnati (Ohio)
Hamilton County (Ohio)
Description
Reverse
says
: "
Central
Parkway
now
and how
it
looked
in
Canal
days.
"
Steeped
in
history
, this
parkway
of
23.8
acres
extends
for
4.5
miles
from
downtown
to the
edge
of
Cumminsville
-
from
Broadway
and
Reading
Road
,
turning
right
at
Plum
, to
Liberty
, to
Harrison
and the
Western
Hills
Viaduct
, to its
terminal
at
Ludlow
,
below
Mt
.
Storm
Park
.
It
was
acquired
in
1931
by the
Park
Board
from the
Board
of
Rapid
Transit
Commissions
.
Trees
and
shrubs
were
planted
-
those of a
variety
to
endure
the
atmospheric
and
soil
conditions
of the
downtown
section
,
particularly
the
English
maple
, the
Oriental
plane
tree
, and the
elm
-
three
types
found
to be
best
fitted
for
growth
in
metropolitan
confines
. The
English
maples
were
moved
to
Ault
Park
and
replaced
by
crabapples
when
the
parkway
islands
were
narrowed
.
London
plane
tree
replaced
most
of the
oriental
plane
trees
and
red
oak
, the
elms
.
During
the
construction
of
Central
Parkway
,
many
gifts
of
trees
were
made
. These are a
part
of
landscape
now
so
familiar
to
Parkway
travelers
. The
Daughters
of the
American
Revolution
placed
at the
Central
Parkway
and
Ludlow
Avenue
intersection
a
bronze
tablet
in
memory
of
Major
General
Arthur
St
.
Clair
,
who
was an
officer
in the
Revolutionary
War
,
first
governor
of the
Northwest
Territory
, and the
man
who
gave
Cincinnati
its
name
. A
historical
marker
,
erected
under
the
Ohio
Revolutionary
Memorial
Commission's
plan
,
stands
at
Central
Parkway
and
Sycamore
where
the
two
Ohio
trails
branched
.
Reading
Road
following
the
marches
of
Bowman
,
Clark
,
Harmar
,
Harrison
,
Clay
and
Shelby
; and
Central
Parkway
folloing
the
route
of
St
.
Clair
and
Mad
Anthony
Wayne
-
brave
names
in those
days
of
pioneer
drumbeat
and
marching
soldiers
and
frontiersmen
in
buckskin
. The
old
Miami
and
Erie
Canal
which
came
later
on the
Central
Parkway
site
did
not
erase
those
indelible
footsteps
from
history
. The
canal
itself
is
gone
, a
small
remnant
left
of the
$6,000,000
project
started
in
1825
to
provide
a
244-mile
waterway
between
Cincinnati
and
Toledo
.
Yet
the
old
canal
,
too
,
is
remembered
by a
marker
commemorating
it
at
Central
Parkway
and
Ezzard
Charles
Drive
. Here was the
site
of a
major
medium
of
commerce
. Here was the "
Rhine
" the
boundary
of the
Over-the-Rhine
section
where
Cincinnatians
, in a
wide-open
city
,
crossed
the
Vine
Street
Bridge
to the
other
side
of the
canal
,
listened
to the
little
German
bands
and
drank
beer
in their
favorite
saloons
of the
carved-mahogany-bar
variety
. There was the
oom-pah-pah
of the
music
and the
clack
of
man-sized
mugs
, as the
citizens
fondled
handle-bar
moustaches
and
discussed
the
canal
traffic
. In the
old
canal
,
many
of the
notables
of
Cincinnati
went
for a
swim
in their
boyhood
days
, and they
loved
every
single
minute
of
it
.
Central
Parkway
is
one
of the
major
parkways
in a
citywide
network
envisioned
in the
1907
park
plan
by
George
Kessler
.
Extending
along
the
former
route
of the
old
Miami
&
Erie
Canal
,
central
Parkway
was
developed
in
conjunction
with a
rapid
transit
railway
,
which
was to
run
in a
tunnel
created
in the
old
canal
bed
.
Construction
of the
railway
began
in
1920
, but
ceased
in
1927
when
funds
ran
out
. The
system
was
never
completed
because
the
growing
popularity
of the
automobile
greatly
diminished
the
need
or
desire
for
mass
rail
transit
.
When
it
was
dedicated
in
1928
,
Central
Parkway
featured
broad
central
islands
with
concrete
walks
,
trees
,
benches
,
ornamental
street
lamps
and
circular
ventilators
for the
subway
below
. This
scheme
was
mush
simpler
than that
proposed
by
Kessler
. In the
1950s
,
increasing
auto
traffic
led
to
widening
the
roadways
at the
expense
of the
medians
and
fixtures
, with the
exception
of the
streetlights
. In
1990
, the
remaining
medians
were
replanted
.
Between
main
and
Sycamore
Streets
, an
historic
marker
capped
with a
silhouette
of a
Conestoga
Wagon
party
marks
the
confluence
of
two
18th-century
military
trails
.
Creator
Ohio
Federal
Writers
'
Project
Collection
Ohio
Guide
Photographs
Source
State
Archives
Series
1039
AV
Submitting Institution
Ohio Historical Society
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Date created
2010-04-07
Date modified
2010-06-17
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